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Daily Archives: August 20, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Israel Defense Forces' Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi during an event honoring outstanding IDF reservists, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu’s carrot-and-stick policy on Gaza

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Of all the criticism lobbed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu these days, the claim that he has been exercising restraint towards the terrorists in Gaza to distract from his legal battles and guarantee...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (left) and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer.

After Tlaib and Omar ban, Democrats let radicals take the steering wheel

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Taking the blame for actions undertaken by their governments is part of every ambassador’s job. So it’s hardly surprising that Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, and David Friedman, the American ambassador...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is welcomed to the presidential palace in Kiev by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Aug. 19, 2019. Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO.

Jewish group asks Ukrainian president to help build large synagogue in Uman

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Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky vowed on Monday to get to the bottom of an alleged corruption saga that has reportedly been holding up the construction of a synagogue in the city of Uman for...
A demonstration in London calling for a boycott of Israel on Jan. 3, 2009. Credit: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli professor, artists call to boycott Israeli-sponsored international festival

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Professor Eyal Sivan, a lecturer in Sapir College’s graduate program for filmmaking, signed an open letter last week calling to boycott the international Berlin Pop-Kultur Festival due to its sponsorship by the Israeli Embassy. The festival, to...

Virginia imam advocates overthrowing ‘weak’ Arab states, prays for mujahideen

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Egyptian American Imam Shaker Elsayed of the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Fairfax County, Va., where Anwar Al-Awlaki served as imam in September 2001, criticized Arab regimes in a Friday sermon earlier this month for...
This image, posted on the personal social media accounts of Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar over the weekend of Aug. 17, 2019, shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu physically silencing them. Credit: screenshot.

ADL, Jewish groups criticize Omar, Tlaib for sharing anti-Semitic cartoon

The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups have criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for sharing a cartoon on Instagram on Aug. 16 by a cartoonist who placed second in...
U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Credit: Screenshot.

Tlaib attempts to raise funds based on canceled trip to Israel

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has been fundraising off her canceled trip to Israel last week after being granted a humanitarian request to visit her grandmother, which followed on the heels of first being barred from Israel, along...
File photo: Israeli soldiers seen near IDF tanks stationed near the Israeli border with Gaza on May 6, 2019. Credit: Aharon Krohn/Flash90.

Will Israel launch a military ground operation in Gaza?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under attack for his perceived inaction on the Gaza front with some saying that he is more concerned with election polling calculations. Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza...
Pat Buchanan. Credit: Screenshot.

Pat Buchanan on relaunch of prominent political talk show ‘The McLaughlin Group’

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Right-wing pundit and anti-Semite Pat Buchanan will be featured as part of the relaunch early next year of the longtime prominent political talk show “The McLaughlin Group” on PBS. Debuting in 1982 and airing for...
The British oil tanker "British Heritage." Source: Screenshot, vesselfinder.com.

Bahrain becomes first Gulf state to join US, UK coalition against Iran

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Bahrain announced on Monday that it would join the U.S.-led efforts to protect shipping in the Gulf after Iranian aggressive and violent behavior in the area. Bahrain King Hamad met with U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)...